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I found a replacement door on Ebay for $15, and some general disassembly instructions. The specific repair was done to replace an LCD, so I'm not sure how much of it will apply to you. Feel free to take lots of pictures when you fix yours and create your own guide!

Kudos for rocking the Olympus DSLR, by the way. I have an E-420 myself, and I love it.

David- thanks much for the link! Door on my e510 gave out just as I upgraded to an A6000. But I'm still keeping the e510 because I have so much good glass for it and it still takes great photos, if a bit heavy. Thanks again.

I also used the same procedure to replace my CF card door for my Olympus E-420 and it worked nicely. Two notes: 1) make sure to keep track where the screws go because they are of different lengths. 2) it's disconcerting that the CF door is held in place by two small pieces of plastic that don't seem too sturdy.

Just replaced the door on my E420 - good advice above - likewise only necessary to ease the cover open a little to fit the new door - not a big job. General Disassembly instructions above state "Remove the three screws from the card compartment"; there's only two on the E420.

Just for anyone that hasn't realised, I had to change the door because I kept getting a warning that the card cover was open. This was caused by wear on the card door latch.

I brought some tiny round magnets, which when glued into the place of the faulty clips should do the trick (from Hong Kong) when it happened for the second time and am working on it now to see how I can glue them into place to keep it shut. Very bad design. Suspect it was designed to fail. Great little camera otherwise.

E510 Card door....Fixed it. with a eight tiny round magnets .95 X .395 mm ordered from here http://tinyurl.com/mqu2af5, ordered 100 for less than $10. Broke the useless catches, scraped out the small raised rib area to make it flat, super glued tiny magnet into place, did the same with the door side, and added two or three magnets to take up the space. They hold themselves into place but could be glued. Works well. No help from Olympus. Next camera? A Nikon. Bad customer service from Olympus...

Thank you all so much! I only had to remove three screws on my E-420, the two inside the card compartment, and the one next to the "Made in China" label on the camera bottom next to the battery door. I was then able to pry the joint "behind" the card door open enough to see the metal rod that the door hinges on and slip it out with a small flathead screwdriver. The new one went in as easily. I had expected this to be painful and time-consuming, but it only took about 15 minutes.